[Raapys]

Sorry, must have misread you.

You can log into player 2 by going to the menu->players and deselecting the second player on the list. You'll need a password to enter the list and to log into the player, though. Unless you changed it, the password will be 'master'.

Anyway, you're not waiting for the duration of 'space combat maximum time'. The space combats go at an 8x speed or faster( which means the longest combat takes 300/8 seconds or less). The problem is that an AI empire can sometimes have 8+ combats in a single turn. I'd try putting it at 60 at the lowest; lower than that and you risk *real fights* not getting finished.